She bursts into our room and throws herself face first onto the bed between My Love and me. Between the mucus-filled sobs, she wails. Her body bares no visible wounds, no blood, no bruises. A minute or so earlier, I had kissed Thing 1 good night, leaving.
Topics: growing up, kids, The Diva discourses

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It's not like there haven't been signs. The snug feeling in the waistband. The slightly elevated blood pressure. The inability to look down and determine whether one's toenails need clipping. But, folks, this may be the one that finally sends.
Topics: health, Home repair, my idiot self

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Our local library recently considered cutting its hours of operation to make up for its success (being our state's second busiest library) and failure (raising barely a whiff of money to supplement the whopping 91 percent of its $7.76 million budget..
Topics: humor, newspaper column, pure relish and malarky, Stamford

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I don't recall why I came into the newspaper office on a Saturday morning, but it wasn't because I was planning to meet any one of note. I was wearing over-sized glasses to give my eyes a break from excessive contact lens wear and a thinning...
Topics: career opportunities, growing up, humor, media

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Not being a believer in signs from God, Buddha, Mohammad or -- in life's more hurried moments -- those posted by highway employees, I was not fazed by Murphy's yanking me by his leash toward every entry of the church. Not the first time, at...
Topics: dogs, humor, religion, Stamford

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